Last week, the Nigerian Army claimed the Boko Haram leader's impersonator was killed. Cameroon even claimed they were the ones who killed him,a
claim subsequently debunked by the Nigerian Military.Photos and even a
video was even released to buttress that fact .However, in yet another
video made available to AFP today, Shekau was shown making a speech
debunking reports of his death.According to AFP, he said

“Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath,” He
also added that, that his group was “running our… Islamic caliphate” and
administering sharia punishments."

Boko Haram leader Abubakar
Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video
obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented
strict Islamic law in captured towns.

"Here I am,
alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," Shekau said,
adding that his group was

The
heavily bearded Shekau, who appeared to be the same as those in
previous clips, said the military's claim that he was dead was
propaganda.

"Nothing will
kill me until my days are over... I'm still alive. Some people asked you
if Shekau has two souls. No, I have one soul, by Allah," he said,
apparently reading from a script.

"It is propaganda that is prevalent. I have one soul. I'm an Islamic student.

"I'm
the Islamic student whose seminary you burnt... I'm not dead," he
added, apparently referring to the destruction of the group's mosque in
the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in 2009.

There
have been two previous claims by Nigeria's security forces that Shekau
was dead -- once in 2009 during unrest in Maiduguri -- and again in
2013.

Following each previous claim Boko Haram has issued denials in video messages.
Elsewhere
in the new video, the militant leader said the group had implemented
strict Islamic law in the towns that it had captured in recent weeks.

"We
are running our caliphate, our Islamic caliphate. We follow the
Koran... We now practise the injunctions of the Koran in the land of
Allah," he said.

The group also claimed to have shot down a Nigerian air force jet that went missing nearly three weeks ago.

An air force spokesman said the jet was missing.

"For any group to claim they shot it down is mere propaganda and rubbish," Air Commodore Dele Alonge told AFP.

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